The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-03-19

Mr.. Seccomb came out at 1920 a. M. and said
mat no arrangements had as yet been made for
She funeral further than providing that thew
should be carried out by Mr.. Hopper, of Brook.
Ign.
Dr. Searle, he said had noticed change in
the patients condition at $3.50 a. M, and sum.
moned .all in the house to the bedside mo-
mentarlly expecting his death, but he fingered
much longer than had been anticipated. He
passed away gradually and almost impercept-
ibly,
DRAWING HIS LAST BREATH
without apparent suffering or return to con.
seriousness in any degree. Mrs Beecher, said
Mr.. Seccomb, bore up wonderfully and with
marvellous courage
No Grape was hung on the door, Mr. Beecher
having always objected to the use of this and
the gloom associated with it in the presence of
death. Instead magnificent wreath of flowers
hung from the left side Of the doorway at the
top OF the stoop composed Of red and white
roses and Lilies Of the Valley and tied up with
white satin. ~.
At 1890 it was given out that the funeral
would take place
IN GREENWOOD ON THURSDAY NEXT.
Some time ago Mr. H. w. Sage, member of
Plymouth Church, appropriated by will a sum
OF money to place statue of Mr.. Beecher in
Prospect Park, after his decease. Mr. Quincy
Wood, the well known sculptor who is to do the
work. will call at the house in the course of the
day for the purpose Of making plaster cast of
his features. 1t Is not intended that any ex.
animation shall be made Of Mr.. Beecher's brain
organism.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
QHenrv Ward Beecher who, two years ago was
pronounced by Gladstone one OF the five truly
great men living, theother four being, according
to the grand old man, Victor Hugo u S. Grant,
Bismarck and Darwin, was born at Ltchfeld,
Conn.,, June "a, 1918, the eighth child Of Lyman
and Roxana Foote Beecher. The conveyance
OF twolong lines Of sturdy New England ances-
try is represented by the union Of these names
OF his childhood period Mr.. Beecher himself
says In his characteristic way.
II think was about as we'll brought up as
most children, because I was let alone. NV
father was so busy, and my mother had so many
other children to look after that, except here
and there, hardly came under the parental
hand at all. I was brought up in New Eng
land village, and knew where the sweet flag
was where the hickory trees were where the
chestnut trees were, where the sassafras trees
were, where the squirrels were. where all those
things were that boys enterprise after; there
fore had world of things to do; and so did
not come much in contact with family govern
ment"
His mother died when he was but three wears
old. His devotion to her memory amounted to
passion In after years. In one sermon he said
that no devout Catholic ever saw so much in the |
Virgin Mary as he had seen in his mother, who
had been presence to him ever since he could |
remember Ue began his education in o little
school kept by Widow Kilbourn, where the |
idleness which generally prevailed was emphs-
sized by the recital Of the alphabet twice daily,
From here he went 10 the district school,
AT the age OF ten he was removed to the pri-
vate school OF the Rev. Mr.. Langdon, at Beth
lehem, and was then sent to Hartford where |
his sister was the head Of young ladies' school.
There he was the only boy among about fortv |
girls. When he was twelve years old the fami.
ly removed to Boston, and the whole current Of
his life was changed. He entered the Boston
Latin School, where the course of study was re.
pulsive and uncongenial to him. He afterward
said, in one Of his sermons, that II he had not }
been taken out Of Boston in time nothing would
have prevented his going to destruction. The
boy, from reading books Of travel, hankered after
a life OF adventure. Under the pretense that n
training In mathematics and navigation was
necessary, ne was sent by his father to Mount
Pleasant school, at Amhurst, Mass. There he
was under the special care Of q genial, manly
young teacher, between whom and the boy a
firm friendship was compacted. Under the In
struction Of this Mr.. Fitzgerald he made
good progress in mathematics, and the
difficulties in his voice, its indistinctness and
thickness, were removed in a great measure, by
. course Of elocution under Prof ]. E. Lowell.
he joined his fathers church in Boston, when
his dreams Of naval ambition were merged into
aspirations to enter the ministry. Two years of
happiness at Mt. Pleasant followed. His
preparation was thorough, and he might have
entered the Sophomore but he Joined the Fresh.
mems class. He graduated in 1884 and Joined
his father at Cincinnati, where Dr. Beecher re-
moved some two years before.
Ole next entered the Lane Theological Sem
mary at Cincinnati where he conceived a strong
attachment for Prot. c. E. Stowe, af erward the
hrsosnd Of his sister, Harriet. Old DR.. Lyman
was then professor In the seminary. The theo-
logical views of Henry Ward at this time can be
summed W Ia The following sentence; ''The